Map of Bulgaria and Romania with Southern Dobrudja or Cadrilater highlighted in yellow. Northern Dobruja is highlighted in orange.
Southern Dobruja, South Dobruja, or Quadrilateral (Bulgarian: Южна Добруджа, romanized: Yuzhna Dobrudzha or simply Добруджа, Dobrudzha; Romanian: Dobrogea de Sud, Cadrilater or Dobrogea Nouă) is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising Dobrich and Silistra provinces, part of the historical region of Dobruja. It has an area of 7,412 square km[1] and a population of 358,000. It was a part of the Kingdom of Romania de jure from 1913 to 1918 (de facto from 1913 to 1916) and again from 1919 to 1940.
^Keith Hitchins, Clarendon Press, 1994, Rumania, 1866-1947, p. 448
SouthernDobruja, South Dobruja, or Quadrilateral (Bulgarian: Южна Добруджа, romanized: Yuzhna Dobrudzha or simply Добруджа, Dobrudzha; Romanian: Dobrogea...
Bulgarian coast. The territory of Dobruja is made up of Northern Dobruja, which is a part of Romania, and SouthernDobruja, which is a part of Bulgaria. The...
The SouthernDobruja Offensive was the opening action of the Romanian invasion of Bulgaria during the Second Balkan War of 1913. At the time of the invasion...
the lower Danube River and the Black Sea, bordered in the south by SouthernDobruja, which is a part of Bulgaria. Around 600 BC, the Greeks colonized the...
Romania. Under its terms, Romania had to allow Bulgaria to retake SouthernDobruja, which Romania had gained after the 1913 Second Balkan War. Bulgaria...
the revived Ottomans retook Adrianople. Romania took possession of southernDobruja. In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars Bulgarian opinion turned against...
allocated to five army corps. Some 80,000 were assembled to occupy the SouthernDobruja, while an army of 250,000 was assembled to carry the main offensive...
regions at various times during the late 19th and 20th centuries, including Dobruja in 1878, and Transylvania in 1918. These regions are part of Romania today:...
entering World War II, Bulgaria had peacefully secured the return of SouthernDobruja from Romania in the Treaty of Craiova. During World War II, some of...
The Dobruja Campaign was a major operation during the Romanian Campaign of World War I. It took place between 2 September and 25 October 1916 between...
Russophile. On 7 September 1940, after the Second Vienna Award in August, SouthernDobruja, lost to Romania under the 1913 Treaty of Bucharest, was returned to...
the Danubian Plain in Northern Bulgaria (including Ludogorie and SouthernDobruja), it constitutes the majority of the Great European Plain (European...
moved to SouthernDobruja, part of the Kingdom of Romania after the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913. After the reinclusion of SouthernDobruja in Bulgaria...
recognized independence via the Treaty of Berlin, 1878 and acquired SouthernDobruja from Bulgaria in 1913. In 1883 the king entered a top-secret military...
Northern Bukovina to the USSR, Northern Transylvania to Hungary and SouthernDobruja to Bulgaria. Although a German guarantee was finally achieved, the...
Tatars of Romania, Tatars of Dobruja or Dobrujan Tatars (Romanian: Tătarii din România) are a Turkic ethnic group that have been present in Romania since...
Romanian War of Independence, the inclusion of Northern Dobruja and the transfer of the southern part of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire in 1878, the proclamation...
transfer of SouthernDobruja to Bulgaria by Romania. It involved 103,711 Romanians, Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians living in SouthernDobruja and 62,278...
public opinion remained hostile to Austria-Hungary. Romania seized SouthernDobruja from Bulgaria in the Second Balkan War in 1913. German and Austrian-Hungarian...
Romania: Romania lost Northern Transylvania to Hungary and had to cede SouthernDobruja to Bulgaria. The popularity of the Romanian government plummeted, further...
unification was completed and formalized. Romania annexed the southern part of Dobruja province. Bulgaria, even though defeated, managed to hold some...
of Dobruja (Велик добруджански събор), a Bulgarian political organisation established in 1919 to fight against Romanian rule in SouthernDobruja. The...
it was defeated, losing most of Macedonia to Serbia and Greece, and SouthernDobruja to Romania. The result was that even countries which benefited from...
Independence), after which it was forced to cede the southern part of Bessarabia in exchange for Northern Dobruja. The kingdom's territory during the reign of...
Vienna Award Romania had to cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary. SouthernDobruja was ceded to Bulgaria in September 1940. In an effort to appease the...
annex Southern Bessarabia, which was recovered decades before. Romania received Northern Dobruja as compensation, and would wage a war for the southern part...
Transylvania to Hungary, through the Second Vienna Award, and the SouthernDobruja to Bulgaria by the Treaty of Craiova. In the course of World War II...
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